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The Breaking of the Vessels. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.

Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989.

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"A Jew Among the Cossacks; The first English translation of Isaac Babel's journal about his service with the Russian cavalry. 1920 Diary, By Isaac Babel", (Review) The New York Times, June 4, 1995.

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